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Ethical? The Oxfam report claims ABF is among the companies using sugar grown on illegally taken land

Primark owner Associated British Foods (ABF) is among the biggest names in the food and drink industry not doing enough to stop poor people from being forced from their land to make way for crops, according to Oxfam.

Pepsi looks to have won the cola wars over Christmas according to its UK licensee Britvic whose sales of fizzy drinks grew by 5.8% throughout England, Scotland and Wales in the final quarter of 2011. The firm said the growth was "led by Pepsi which substantially grew its market share of the take-home cola market."

Deep down, we all know it's just a ploy to sell us stuff. And yet the John Lewis Christmas ad is making even the hard-hearted a little moist-eyed. Shot on location in Golders Green by a London agency, the 90-second commercial - for those who have somehow missed it - follows a boy counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to December 25: clock-watching, finger-tapping and casting a spell to try to speed up time. When Christmas Day finally arrives, he rips off the covers on his bed and (spoiler alert) rushes past his stocking to deliver a poorly wrapped present to his parents instead.